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INTEROCEPTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("interoception" is a kind of...):
sensibility; sensitiveness; sensitivity ((physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "interoception"):
proprioception (the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts)
somaesthesia; somaesthesis; somataesthesis; somatesthesia; somatic sense; somatic sensory system; somatosensory system; somesthesia; somesthesis (the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs)